have to get my un-vaxed kids the polio vaccine - need advice!

we live in the "3rd world" - urban, not SO bad, but still very impoverished place.

anyway - there is a polio outbreak in kids under 5. i absolutely have no choice, i have to get my two younger kids (the non-vaxed ones) vaxed for polio. but which vax??? (they are 22.5 months and 5.5 months old.)

my two choices:

OPV (potential polio, about 60% effective with one dose, free vax from MOH).

Those are terrible choices. I agree with PPs, I'd see if I could order one. If i could not find a way to get the IPV seperate, then it would depend on your situation, how exposed you & your kids are. Are they around a lot of other children? Is it realistic to keep them kind of secluded?

Wow, I am so sorry you're faced with this decision. Â Even sorrier for you looking at your choices. Â I'd see if one can be ordered or travel elsewhere or... take my children out of the public and "quarantine" them for the time being. Â I know that's extreme but it beats the choices you have, unfortunately. Â

I thought the WHO took the Oral Polio Vax off the market because it was causing the Polio.... Where are you living? And are you SURE they are even still offering the OPV? If you can, order the single IPV from another country.